Literary theory books

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Confronting / Defining the Self: Formation and Dissolution of the ‘I’ from La Fayette to Grass

Confronting / Defining the Self: Formation and Dissolution...

Author: John A. McCarthy
ISBN: 9789004534063
Format: Hardback
$390.72

This book is about (re)discovering the value of the traditional literary European canon. Through the practice of...  Read More >>

A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature: Amidst the Masters of Words

A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature:...

Author: Florin-Corneliu Popovici
ISBN: 9781036405380
Format: Hardback
$314.03

This book is a comprehensive interpretation of the contemporary Romanian writers' contribution to the enrichment...  Read More >>

Reading the Impossible: Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History

Reading the Impossible: Sexual Difference, Critique,...

Author: Elizabeth Weed
ISBN: 9781531506780
Format: Hardback
$186.99

In reconsidering the question of sexual difference, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical...  Read More >>

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Fundamentals of Literary Theory

Author: Klaus W. Hempfer
ISBN: 9783031474071
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Drawing on texts from Classical Antiquity to English, German, French, Spanish and Italian literature, the book brings...  Read More >>

The Christian Literary Imagination

The Christian Literary Imagination

Author: Michael Scott
ISBN: 9781648899027
Format: Paperback
$298.32

This collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.  Read More >>

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader

The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority...

Author: Sophie Corser
ISBN: 9781474481441
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

Romantischer Realismus: Literarhistorische Kontinuität im 19. Jahrhundert

Romantischer Realismus: Literarhistorische Kontinuität...

Author: Christoph Gardian
ISBN: 9783662689639
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Weshalb bearbeiten Texte, die als ›realistische‹ positioniert werden, über einen Zeitraum von immerhin gut 50 Jahren...  Read More >>

D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity: Rereading Midlands Novels and Wartime Writings in Social and Political Contexts

D. H. Lawrence and Ambivalence in the Age of Modernity:...

Author: Gaku Iwai
ISBN: 9781032675664
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Comparing Lawrence’s texts to various major and minor contemporary novels, journal articles, political pamphlets...  Read More >>

Philosophers' Poets

Philosophers' Poets

Author: David Wood
ISBN: 9781032769509
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets...  Read More >>

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

The Reader in Modernist Fiction

Author: Brian Richardson
ISBN: 9781399528368
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue

Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between...

Author: Magda Dragu (Indiana University Bloomington)
ISBN: 9781032689692
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations...  Read More >>

Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality: A Rhetorical Approach to Storytelling in Contemporary Western Culture

Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality: A Rhetorical...

Author: Monika Fludernik ,  Samuli Björninen
ISBN: 9783631851739
Format: Hardback
$139.73

The book provides frameworks for analyzing the rhetorical uses and potential dangers of narratives and fictionality....  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French...

Author: Manon Mathias
ISBN: 9781032427812
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature

Author: Douglas A. Vakoch ,  Sabine Sharp
ISBN: 9781032431550
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Hybridity in Life Writing: Combining Text and Images

Hybridity in Life Writing: Combining Text and Images...

Author: Arnaud Schmitt
ISBN: 9783031518034
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Including a range of life writing and different visual media, from paintings and photography to graphic memoirs...  Read More >>

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at...

Author: Dominik Zechner
ISBN: 9783031531910
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik: Vom Finden zum Machen

Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik: Vom Finden...

Author: Ulf Schulenberg
ISBN: 9783031528415
Format: Hardback
$224.37

Vom Finden zum Machen bietet die erste ausführliche Diskussion über die Beziehung zwischen Marxismus und Pragmatismus....  Read More >>

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between...

Author: Sarah Hart
ISBN: 9780008601119
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart’s lightness of touch...  Read More >>

Taking Place: Environmental Change in Literature and Art

Taking Place: Environmental Change in Literature and...

Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
ISBN: 9783031483547
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and...

Author: Jillian Porter ,  Maya Vinokour
ISBN: 9783031143229
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and...

Author: Alex Rajczi
ISBN: 9781032693637
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book takes readers on a journey that explores a series of fundamental questions about the nature of art and...  Read More >>

Nietzsche and Literary Studies

Nietzsche and Literary Studies

Author: James I. Porter (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781316511312
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which draw on two and a half millennia of literary and...  Read More >>

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and the Arts

The Art Experience: An Introduction to Philosophy and...

Author: Alex Rajczi
ISBN: 9781032693675
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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